Art
studies in USA
Portrait, Figure
drawing and Color Theory at Massachusetts College of Art,
and Boston Museum
School.
Studied in workshops conducted by leading American
artists.
See list at the end of this segment.
Exhibits
Denmark 1989-2003
Odense Rådhushall (G)
Morudgaard, Fyn (S)
Ålborg Hallen (S)
Galleri 88, Bellinge, Fyn (S)
Morudgaard, Fyn (S)
Ålborg Hallen (S)
Galleri 88, Bellinge, Fyn (S)
Also
exhibits(S) at over 70 "Kunstforeninger" (corporate and government
galleries. See list at the end of this segment.
Sweden 2001
Tapper-Popermajer
Gallery in Malmø
USA 1979 - 1998
Polonaise Gallery,Woodstock, Vermont, USA (G)(1)
Danco Furniture, Hatfield, Massachusetts, USA (G)
CenterBank, Woodbury, Connecticut, USA (S)
Littleton Public Library, New Hampshire, USA (S)
Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA (G)
Wickford Arts Festival, Wickford, Rhode Island, USA (G)
Portland Arts Festival, Portland, Maine, USA (G)
Laconia Arts Festival, Laconia, New Hampshire, USA (G)
Mystic Arts Festival, Connecticut, USA (G)
Waterville Arts Fest, Waterville, Maine, USA (G)
Reading Art Association, Massachusetts, USA (G)
Polonaise Gallery,Woodstock, Vermont, USA (G)(1)
Danco Furniture, Hatfield, Massachusetts, USA (G)
CenterBank, Woodbury, Connecticut, USA (S)
Littleton Public Library, New Hampshire, USA (S)
Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA (G)
Wickford Arts Festival, Wickford, Rhode Island, USA (G)
Portland Arts Festival, Portland, Maine, USA (G)
Laconia Arts Festival, Laconia, New Hampshire, USA (G)
Mystic Arts Festival, Connecticut, USA (G)
Waterville Arts Fest, Waterville, Maine, USA (G)
Reading Art Association, Massachusetts, USA (G)
Spain 2006 – 2012
(S)
El Castillo de Santa Ana, Roquetas de Mar,
Almeria,El Museo del Aceite, Almeria,
Almeria, Casa Danspain, Torrevieja, Alicante, Casa Interior, Guardamar,
Alicante, Cuevas
de Rojales, Rojales, Alicante
Note(1): S = One man exhibits, G= Group
exhibits
Among 10 prizes received:
First
Place Award, Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Presidents Award, Reading, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Brackman Award (Best portrait), Mystic, Connecticut, USA
Presidents Award, Reading, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Brackman Award (Best portrait), Mystic, Connecticut, USA
Collections:
The paintings are in private collections in
Argentina, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and USA. Also in the
collection of La Casa de la Culture
in Roquetas de Mar, Spain and El Museo del Aceite in Almeria, Spain.
Workshops and Evening Art Classes attended
I have been very lucky an privileged to be able to attend workshops by some of Americas leading artist/instructors. I have never attended a workshop that I did not enjoy. My fellow artists, while very different personalities and nationalities, had one thing in common, their love of art. They also happened to be some of the nicest and most caring people I have met anywhere.
My main reason for attending so many workshops has been, not only to learn something new, but also to experience the tremendous inspiration that these workshops provide.
Note: Work and/or videos of most of the instructors listed can be found by "Googling" their name and checking YouTube for videos.
The music Box: One day in 1973, a colleague from work told me that he was starting classes at The Music Box, an art evening course in Northborough, Massachusetts. Not having painted since my childhood I became interested and decided to join my colleague.
I wanted to paint with oils, but the teacher said that it was better to start with watercolors. Then began my lifelong love affair with this media. My first attempts were awful, I had lost all the ability that I had as a child. I hided my paintings in our basement, until once in a while I would get a "keeper".
Bill Wallace: My next teacher was Bill Wallace from Northborough, an accomplished artist who painted in Watercolor. He also taught a class in figure drawing, which I attended.
George Shedd: Taught watercolor painting in Lexington, Massachusetts. His subject matter would be weathered doorways, a gravestone with an American flag, or an old rusty container with flowers in it. He got some beautiful paintings using dry-brush techniques. His paintings won severl awards.
Tad Klodnicki: Had a gallery and classroom in Rockport, Massachusetts.
Thadeus Klodnicki was a a polish arquitect/artist. He was born in 1904 and had been in German concentration camp, where he had painted several portraits of fellow prisoners. He had borrowed food color from the kitchen and manufactured a brush from his hair. He told us that, once when he was doing a small painting in the courtyard. he had been fired upon from the guard tower, as they probably thought he was recording information for an escape.
In class he would do a watercolor painting from a polish subject matter, and would have the class do the same painting, as he was explaining his technique. His painting are still auctioned by galleries in Rockport (Google: Tad Klodnicki paintings).
Ferdinand Petrie: taught a workshop in Rockport, Massachusetts, which I attended.
He was the author of a book about drawing landscapes in pencil and one about watercolor techniques. During the workshop he would do a demo, setting up his portable easel at the crossroads of one of the many streets lined with quaint old Rockport houses. Standing up he would quickly sketch and paint the townscape looking down one of the streets, he would repeat this 3 more times, each time turning 90 degrees.
He would end up with 4 small "Jewell's", each one worthy of being framed. He left a lot of white paper in the paintings, showing how this was an important part of the design. Petrie's paintings and books can be found by "Googling" Ferdinand Petrie, artist.
Gene Dobbie: I remember Gene Dobbie as a talented artist and teacher, she taught us how to mix grays using a different combination of colors, as well as mixing green and red to get a nearly black color.
Having spent many years painting watercolor landscapes I began to get interested in a more abstract approach to painting. This began during vacations in my native Denmark. Many of the paintings done by Danish artists were abstract. Most did not apeal to me, but a few did and I became interested. At that time I also visited the Emile Nolde museum in Germany, just south of the Danish border. Nolde, a German expressionist had painted a number of landscapes and small portraits in a colorful semi-abstract manner. They were superb.
DE
In 1984 I attended a workshop by Charles Reid in Sebasco Bay, Maine. Reid was not only an outstanding teacher, but also a warm caring human being with a great sense of humor. I learned a lot from his loose "painterly" style. He tough us about contour drawing, lost and found edge, and much more. Every day he would critique the students work, always in an encouraging way. We would take turns assisting him in placing the students work on an easel. One day when it was my turn I had just placed one of the paintings on the easel. The subject was a portrait of a woman, done rather well, except that when the student had painted the shadow under the lips the under painting was still moist. The shadow had become a moustache and we could not help but laugh, the student that had done the painting laughed the loudest.
Charles Reid had to lean one hand on my shoulder. We were not laughing at the creator of the painting, we were laughing with her, because we had all run into similar challenges. And like most workshops I've attended, the students would be tremendously supportive and caring. It was a happy, sharing moment that I will always remember.
In 1989 I attended a workshop by Maxine Masterfield, one of the most creative abstract painters I've met. A whole new world opened up to me. Rather than painting in one "trademark” style, she continuously experimented with new ways to create exciting texture and design. I would say -her trademark is diversity, creativity, texture and design.
Maxine wrote a beautiful poem in my book, it follows here:
Nothing last an endless time.
When the sun has shone it returns to the sea.
The moon wanes which just now was full.
So the savagery of loves lust turns into a gentle brogue.
Roman Citizen
In 1998 I attended a workshop by Louise Cadillac, using acrylic paint with alcohol resist she created whole new textures and abstract patterns. There was such an excitement in her class, not the least when she gave a slide show of former student's work.
In 2000 I attended a workshop by Virginia Cobb for many years I had admired her Experimental Water Media book " Discovering The Inner Eye". In addition to being an outstanding artist, she showed us whole new ways to create abstract designs and patterns.
In 2002 I participated in a workshop by Pat Dews in the beautiful resort of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Pat showed us how to create some beautiful effects using her atomizer.
In 2010 I travelled to Traverse city in Northern Michigan to attend a workshop by Mary Ann Beckwith who had developed some unique intriguing paintings using Halloween artificial cob web.
In 2011 I attended a workshop by Mary Todd Beam in Gatlenburg, Tennessee, who taught us new ways to create interesting patterns using aluminum foill and black Geso, and many other techniques.
In 2012 I returned to Myrtle Beach after 10 years to participate in a workshop by Carole D. Barnes. I had seen her work and spoken with some of her students in 2002. At that time, I promised myself, that some day I would attend one of her workshops. It took me 10 years to do so, and I was not disappointed, she brought a lot of ideas about design, color theory, texture and good painting.
Workshops and Evening Art Classes attended
I have been very lucky an privileged to be able to attend workshops by some of Americas leading artist/instructors. I have never attended a workshop that I did not enjoy. My fellow artists, while very different personalities and nationalities, had one thing in common, their love of art. They also happened to be some of the nicest and most caring people I have met anywhere.
My main reason for attending so many workshops has been, not only to learn something new, but also to experience the tremendous inspiration that these workshops provide.
Note: Work and/or videos of most of the instructors listed can be found by "Googling" their name and checking YouTube for videos.
The music Box: One day in 1973, a colleague from work told me that he was starting classes at The Music Box, an art evening course in Northborough, Massachusetts. Not having painted since my childhood I became interested and decided to join my colleague.
I wanted to paint with oils, but the teacher said that it was better to start with watercolors. Then began my lifelong love affair with this media. My first attempts were awful, I had lost all the ability that I had as a child. I hided my paintings in our basement, until once in a while I would get a "keeper".
Bill Wallace: My next teacher was Bill Wallace from Northborough, an accomplished artist who painted in Watercolor. He also taught a class in figure drawing, which I attended.
George Shedd: Taught watercolor painting in Lexington, Massachusetts. His subject matter would be weathered doorways, a gravestone with an American flag, or an old rusty container with flowers in it. He got some beautiful paintings using dry-brush techniques. His paintings won severl awards.
Tad Klodnicki: Had a gallery and classroom in Rockport, Massachusetts.
Thadeus Klodnicki was a a polish arquitect/artist. He was born in 1904 and had been in German concentration camp, where he had painted several portraits of fellow prisoners. He had borrowed food color from the kitchen and manufactured a brush from his hair. He told us that, once when he was doing a small painting in the courtyard. he had been fired upon from the guard tower, as they probably thought he was recording information for an escape.
In class he would do a watercolor painting from a polish subject matter, and would have the class do the same painting, as he was explaining his technique. His painting are still auctioned by galleries in Rockport (Google: Tad Klodnicki paintings).
Ferdinand Petrie: taught a workshop in Rockport, Massachusetts, which I attended.
He was the author of a book about drawing landscapes in pencil and one about watercolor techniques. During the workshop he would do a demo, setting up his portable easel at the crossroads of one of the many streets lined with quaint old Rockport houses. Standing up he would quickly sketch and paint the townscape looking down one of the streets, he would repeat this 3 more times, each time turning 90 degrees.
He would end up with 4 small "Jewell's", each one worthy of being framed. He left a lot of white paper in the paintings, showing how this was an important part of the design. Petrie's paintings and books can be found by "Googling" Ferdinand Petrie, artist.
Gene Dobbie: I remember Gene Dobbie as a talented artist and teacher, she taught us how to mix grays using a different combination of colors, as well as mixing green and red to get a nearly black color.
Having spent many years painting watercolor landscapes I began to get interested in a more abstract approach to painting. This began during vacations in my native Denmark. Many of the paintings done by Danish artists were abstract. Most did not apeal to me, but a few did and I became interested. At that time I also visited the Emile Nolde museum in Germany, just south of the Danish border. Nolde, a German expressionist had painted a number of landscapes and small portraits in a colorful semi-abstract manner. They were superb.
DE
In 1984 I attended a workshop by Charles Reid in Sebasco Bay, Maine. Reid was not only an outstanding teacher, but also a warm caring human being with a great sense of humor. I learned a lot from his loose "painterly" style. He tough us about contour drawing, lost and found edge, and much more. Every day he would critique the students work, always in an encouraging way. We would take turns assisting him in placing the students work on an easel. One day when it was my turn I had just placed one of the paintings on the easel. The subject was a portrait of a woman, done rather well, except that when the student had painted the shadow under the lips the under painting was still moist. The shadow had become a moustache and we could not help but laugh, the student that had done the painting laughed the loudest.
Charles Reid had to lean one hand on my shoulder. We were not laughing at the creator of the painting, we were laughing with her, because we had all run into similar challenges. And like most workshops I've attended, the students would be tremendously supportive and caring. It was a happy, sharing moment that I will always remember.
In 1989 I attended a workshop by Maxine Masterfield, one of the most creative abstract painters I've met. A whole new world opened up to me. Rather than painting in one "trademark” style, she continuously experimented with new ways to create exciting texture and design. I would say -her trademark is diversity, creativity, texture and design.
Maxine wrote a beautiful poem in my book, it follows here:
Nothing last an endless time.
When the sun has shone it returns to the sea.
The moon wanes which just now was full.
So the savagery of loves lust turns into a gentle brogue.
Roman Citizen
In 1998 I attended a workshop by Louise Cadillac, using acrylic paint with alcohol resist she created whole new textures and abstract patterns. There was such an excitement in her class, not the least when she gave a slide show of former student's work.
In 2000 I attended a workshop by Virginia Cobb for many years I had admired her Experimental Water Media book " Discovering The Inner Eye". In addition to being an outstanding artist, she showed us whole new ways to create abstract designs and patterns.
In 2002 I participated in a workshop by Pat Dews in the beautiful resort of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Pat showed us how to create some beautiful effects using her atomizer.
In 2010 I travelled to Traverse city in Northern Michigan to attend a workshop by Mary Ann Beckwith who had developed some unique intriguing paintings using Halloween artificial cob web.
In 2011 I attended a workshop by Mary Todd Beam in Gatlenburg, Tennessee, who taught us new ways to create interesting patterns using aluminum foill and black Geso, and many other techniques.
In 2012 I returned to Myrtle Beach after 10 years to participate in a workshop by Carole D. Barnes. I had seen her work and spoken with some of her students in 2002. At that time, I promised myself, that some day I would attend one of her workshops. It took me 10 years to do so, and I was not disappointed, she brought a lot of ideas about design, color theory, texture and good painting.
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